Reply To: How can I learn Yiddish?

It would seem people who actually speak Yidish (or at least the ones who
I want to speak Yiddish to, whether Litvish or Chassidish) don’t hold by YIVO. Yiddish is a living language just like English. I would also like to ask the mods to restrict the thread to practical ideas rather than the politics of Yiddish vs. Hebrew, as another thread several years ago fell into.